The publication of the list of 71 entries for the opening round of the 2014 world championship has unlocked many mysteries. There are eleven registered full world championship drivers (from the four full manufacturer teams and three one-car WRC teams), six entries in WRC2 and only one in WRC3.
The published list shows that the new FIA car class system has produced an interesting balance of entries - with 14 World Rally Cars (RC1s), seventeen in RC2 (quite a mixture – 4 in R5 cars, 1 in RRC, 9 in the old N4 or R4 cars and three normally aspirated S2000s), 12 in RC3 (DS3s, Clios and Fiat 500 Turbos), 18 in RC4 (mainly Twingos, C2s and 208s) and 8 in RC5 as well as the first entry in the WRC event for a R-GT car, a Porsche Cayman for Marc Duez.
Also significant is the almost compete disappearance of cars homologated in the old two-wheel drive Group N categories, with only three Suzuki Swifts entered. The M-Sport team entries for Hirvonen and Evans have been under their provisional team name ”M-Sport Ltd”, and for this event this includes a non-registered entry for Bryan Bouffier, Kubica has his own WRC team entry, VW has entered their third car (Mikkelsen) as a second registered team entry like last year, but there are no extra entries on this event from Citroen or Hyundai. 73 cars started Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo last year.
The publication of the list of 71 entries for the opening round of the 2014 world championship has unlocked many mysteries. There are eleven registered full world championship drivers (from the four full manufacturer teams and three one-car WRC teams), six entries in WRC2 and only one in WRC3.
The published list shows that the new FIA car class system has produced an interesting balance of entries - with 14 World Rally Cars (RC1s), seventeen in RC2 (quite a mixture – 4 in R5 cars, 1 in RRC, 9 in the old N4 or R4 cars and three normally aspirated S2000s), 12 in RC3 (DS3s, Clios and Fiat 500 Turbos), 18 in RC4 (mainly Twingos, C2s and 208s) and 8 in RC5 as well as the first entry in the WRC event for a R-GT car, a Porsche Cayman for Marc Duez.
Also significant is the almost compete disappearance of cars homologated in the old two-wheel drive Group N categories, with only three Suzuki Swifts entered. The M-Sport team entries for Hirvonen and Evans have been under their provisional team name ”M-Sport Ltd”, and for this event this includes a non-registered entry for Bryan Bouffier, Kubica has his own WRC team entry, VW has entered their third car (Mikkelsen) as a second registered team entry like last year, but there are no extra entries on this event from Citroen or Hyundai. 73 cars started Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo last year.